In Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s “The Yellow Wall-Paper” reveals a story of a woman with a temporary nervous disorder. Her husband, who is a physician, placed her on bed rest at a colonial mansion during the summer. The narrator of the story is not too fond of the estate, but obeys her husband’s decision.She is confined to an upstairs room in the mansion. The narrator is forbidden to write during her stay at the mansion, so her mental health becomes worse as she begins to obsess over the yellow wallpaper that covers the room. The narrator begins to study the wall repeatedly and is convinced that there is a woman trapped in the paper. Before leaving the mansion, the narrator decides to tear the yellow wallpaper to free the woman behind the
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The room in the short story represents bondage, confinement, and containment. According to Gilman,” It was nursery first and then playroom and gymnasium, I should judge; for the windows are barred for little children, and there are rings and things in the walls” (5). The rings on the wall presented a sense of confinement for the narrator. When a reader analyzes the short story, they would question the idea of a children’s playroom with barred windows. The narrator’s husband believed that the nursery room was adequate for her recovery. The narrator was isolated from the outside world by her spouse. The narrator experiences physical and mental confinement and containment while staying in the yellow wallpaper room. Gilman reveals,”He said that after the wallpaper was changed it would be heavy bedstead, and then the barred windows and then that gate at the head of the stairs, and so on.” (6). The way how the room is set up shows the narrator’s physical confinement. Locked up in a room without the ability to write placed the narrator is a mental confinement. The view of the yellow wallpaper was repulsive to the narrator. She felt the yellow wallpaper was mocking her, and it also had a vicious
The room in the short story represents bondage, confinement, and containment. According to Gilman,” It was nursery first and then playroom and gymnasium, I should judge; for the windows are barred for little children, and there are rings and things in the walls” (5). The rings on the wall presented a sense of confinement for the narrator. When a reader analyzes the short story, they would question the idea of a children’s playroom with barred windows. The narrator’s husband believed that the nursery room was adequate for her recovery. The narrator was isolated from the outside world by her spouse. The narrator experiences physical and mental confinement and containment while staying in the yellow wallpaper room. Gilman reveals,”He said that after the wallpaper was changed it would be heavy bedstead, and then the barred windows and then that gate at the head of the stairs, and so on.” (6). The way how the room is set up shows the narrator’s physical confinement. Locked up in a room without the ability to write placed the narrator is a mental confinement. The view of the yellow wallpaper was repulsive to the narrator. She felt the yellow wallpaper was mocking her, and it also had a vicious